October 2009
By John Rae, 1st Vice President,
Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians(AEBC)
Is Ontario now on schedule for achieving fully accessible employment, goods, services, facilities and buildings in the public and private sectors by 2025 as the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act requires?
How much progress towards full accessibility has been made from June 2005 to the present?
Accessibility Act deadline fast-approaching
October 14, 2009
BY Lucy Hass
Providing customer service for people with disabilities is as much about mindset as it is about method.
Renfrew council recently received a primer on the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act from one of only three trainers in Renfrew County.
Posted By MIKE PUFFER
October 13, 2009
Congratulations must go out to members of the Kawartha Lakes Accessibility Advisory
Committee for a special event presented two weekends ago.
The Accessibility Aware Fair in Lindsay on Oct. 3 was a spirited attempt to draw attention to disability issues and barriers faced by many people in our community on a daily basis.
KAREN MCKINLEY
10/04/2009
A proposal to make all public and private buildings accessible to all disabilities is being reviewed.
The idea, being prepared under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), was up for public discussion at Confederation College on Saturday.
JIM KELLY
10/02/2009
The chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission says that while the Accessibility for Ontarians with a Disability Act (AODA) gives business owners and others until 2025 to comply, many have already made their facilities accessible.
“Many restaurants in Ontario have been made accessible because people have filed complaints and they have complied voluntarily or have been ordered by tribunals to do that,” said Barbara Hall.
